IMPD: Child may have drowned at apartment complex pool

UPDATE: The victim has been identified as 5-year-old Willie Alexander, Jr.

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A child is believed to have drowned Tuesday afternoon at an apartment complex pool on the city’s west side, police say.

Authorities were called Tuesday to Abney Lake Apartments, Indianapolis police say. The apartments are off Guion Road south of 38th Street and I-65.

Officer William Young with Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department public affairs says officers remained at the scene at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. He says he did not know the child’s age or gender.

“Preliminary information is that this was a result of a drowning however that has not been confirmed,” Young said in an email to News 8.

It was not immediately known what other agencies may have been called to the scene. News 8 asked IMPD to provide additional information, but had no heard back by Thursday afternoon.